Elsevier Partnership contributing to Dutch Open Science

With the expiration of the 2020-2024 UNL-NFU-UKB-NWO-Elsevier agreement, also the Open Science pilot program will end. 

We thank all the participating institutions, the members of the steering group and executive board, and the pilot participants for their ongoing commitment that made this unique collaboration a success. In total 8 pilots ran with nearly 60 participating institutions. For an evaluation of the pilots please see: here

Please be advised that the pilots will be discontinued by end of December 2024 unless otherwise communicated with the participating institutions. 

If you would like to discuss the continuation of EquipmentMonitor, Author Disambiguation Service, and/or the (successor of) DataMonitor, please contact: Dino Venturino at d.venturino@elsevier.com.  

Discussions about the continuation of RareDiseaseMonitor (for the NFU members) are ongoing.   

More information about the new 2025-2027 Agreement will be added to the Elsevier  Open Access agreements page in due course.  

The epdos.nl website will continue to be accessible through the first half of 2025.

Inspired by the open science movement, research is becoming increasingly more open. To facilitate this, the Dutch research community (UNL, NFU, VH, NWO, and KNAW) and Elsevier started a collaboration. Together they are developing new open science and open access services to contribute to Dutch open science. Ideas for new services are tested via pilot projects. These pilots are undertaken by researchers, librarians, research managers, research intelligence consultants and other staff from the participating institutions – the people who will also end up using these services.

In the agreement, which runs until December 2024, the development of these new services are included next to open access publishing and reading services.

 

Developing new Open Science services

Here you will find information about how to contribute to the development of new services. You can read how to give suggestions for new services, how this idea turns into a pilot and how this could evolve into a regular service.

We will update you about the work that is done within the collaboration and we will continue to improve the relevance of the services for the research community. Links and documents about the partnership are provided here, as well as the latest information.

How can researchers help

Next to publishing open access, there are 5 easy things now to support Open Science.

  1. Add your ORCID to papers, datasets, grants and preprints, so they can be linked to your profile
  2. Link to your DATASETS so they can be used by others and cited
  3. Link to the GRANT to avoid admin and help your funder and institution understand projects
  4. Add team roles in CRediT format so all involved are acknowledged
  5. Consider a PREPRINT to speed up distribution and reception of feedback

 

Questions and ideas

Are you interested in contributing? Or do you have an idea for a new service that would make it easier to open up your research practice? Then please contact us.

The Partnership at a glance

Partnership Goals

This multi-year partnership is centred on the provision of a set of services that support the open science ambitions in the Netherlands,  making science more transparent, reproducible, inclusive and collaborative. This allows for the broadest possible audiences in the scholarly world to participate, make use of and contribute to the research process. The agreement is unique in that it goes beyond the scope of open access publishing and reading services alone.

Core elements of the partnership

The agreement between the partners includes three key components:

  1. Open Access Publishing Services
    • The partnership supports the Netherlands’ ambition to achieve 100% open access so that everyone can immediately read a publication of researchers (as corresponding author) from Dutch research organisations. From January 1, 2020, Dutch authored research can be published open access in Elsevier journals.
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  2. Reading Services
    • The agreement covers reading access to all Elsevier journals.
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  3. Open Science Services
    • Services aim to provide enriched and improved data about research that is open for all. These services enable finding research outputs and (societal) impact, finding collaborators for new research project (both with academic and for public engagement), better support the research funding, evaluation and assessment processes.
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